{"slug": "meta-llama-3-8b-instruct-retired", "title": "Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct retired", "summary": "Microsoft retired Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct on Azure AI Foundry, removing the serverless deployment and delisting the model from models.dev's Azure catalog in August 2026. The model, released on 2024-04-18 with an 8k context window and 2k max output, had no announced retirement date. The retirement affects developers using the model via Azure-hosted deployments.", "body_md": "MF✕ Retired\n\n# Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct\n\nMicrosoft · meta-llama-3-8b-instruct\n\nRetired on Azure AI Foundry (azure-hosted deployment). Llama-3.0 serverless retirement; row since purged from the schedule doc, exact date no longer published. Delisted from models.dev's azure catalog 2026-08.\n\n[Provider statement →](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-ai-docs/main/articles/ai-foundry/openai/includes/retirement/models.md)Released2024-04-18\n\nRetiresno announced date\n\nllamatext8k context2k max out\n\nalso matches:\n\n`meta-llama-3-8b-instruct`\n\n`microsoft/meta-llama-3-8b-instruct`\n\n[provider announcement →](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-ai-docs/main/articles/ai-foundry/openai/includes/retirement/models.md)\n\nDoes your code call Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct?\n\n$ curl -fsSL https://llmstatus.ai/install.sh | bash\n\nThen `mm status`\n\nin any repo — it finds every model you use and flags the ones on a clock. No account, nothing uploaded.\n\n[Get alerted before it retires →](/sign-up)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-llama-3-8b-instruct-retired", "canonical_source": "https://llmstatus.ai/m/microsoft/microsoft/meta-llama-3-8b-instruct", "published_at": "2026-08-19 17:18:25+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-21 04:43:13.804383+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Microsoft", "Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct", "Azure AI Foundry", "models.dev"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-llama-3-8b-instruct-retired", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-llama-3-8b-instruct-retired.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-llama-3-8b-instruct-retired.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-llama-3-8b-instruct-retired.jsonld"}}